Oratory of San Marco. Rossano. Italy Audiobook (Free)

The audioguide tells the storyplot, describes the architecture and reports interesting factual statements about the oratory.

Rossano is one of the most important cities of Calabria, under Byzantine rule, and here one of many monuments of this period has been preserved: the Oratorio di San Marco, founded roughly in the X-XI century.

During the repair, fragments of admirable sculptures and frescoes from the Byzantine period emerged: a Madonna with Child, which was to participate a very much wider about Oratory of San Marco. Rossano. Italy representation, probably throughout the church, as is usually within the iconographic programs of the post iconoclastic Byzantine churches old. The peculiar element of the architecture of San Marco’s may be the barrel vault, comparable to those on the island of Crete. Inside, you will find more of the church’s eastern area with somewhat projecting and specifically organized apses, and cylindrical lateral drums. The walls of the apses are bare, animated only with the opening of the dual windows, while the mullioned windows open up onto the drums.

A point of interest may be the altar table, which you will find in front of you, once you have crossed the area within the central dome. It really is a burial element: a plate found alongside additional sculptural fragments, through the restoration and, over the border, there are other geometric ornaments.

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